wait. who’s rushing? what exactly is the issue being discussed?
i was under the impression that our brothers are doing fine wherever they are, and we don’t need to worry about them until mashiach. although it would be nice to meet them. sam, are you sure about them being lost forever? didn’t rav something like maybe a tanna, go over the sambatyon one shabbos because he needed to contact them and it was a case of pikuach nefesh? i don’t remember the specifics of the story but i am pretty sure they are still there. although imagine it–they don’t know anything about chanuka or purim or any of our past couple thousand years of history. and we don’t know about theirs.
maybe i should rein in my overactive imagination and just leave it as teiku 🙂